The media blasted headlines on Thursday claiming, yet again, that women in America are victims of the patriarchy because men are earning more money. Here’s a small sampling:
“Women May Earn Just 49 Cents on the Dollarâ€
“Gender pay gap is worse than thought: Study shows women actually earn half the income of menâ€
“U.S. women earn half the income of men, new study findsâ€
“The Gender Pay Gap Is Way More F***ed Than You Thoughtâ€
The last one is from the always measured and reasonable "Jezebel," in case you were wondering.
But what these articles are forced to admit is that the study finds the gap is caused by women taking more time off from work than men. Naturally, the feminist crowd cries discrimination while ignoring the fact that so many women choose to take the time off to be with family because not everyone hates babies as much as they do.
The report was compiled by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and titled “Still A Man’s Labor Market,†because of course. The Atlantic article about the report tries to keep the sexism argument alive, but acknowledges six paragraphs in that the earnings gap is entirely due to women making different choices in their lives than men, and not a “wage†gap from discrimination:
“Comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges, women earn close to what men earn: Women in similar workplaces with similar titles and similar credentials make pretty much what their male peers do, whether they are fast-food employees making close to the minimum wage or corporate executives making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.â€
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38858/new-study-confirms-yet-again-gender-wage-gap-due-ashe-schow
